Lost in Translation

Not many people realize the day we celebrate the ascension of Jesus to heaven because it didn’t happen on a Sunday. In fact, it was a Thursday. Yes, the ascension happened 40 days after the resurrection. It was a difficult…

Tonight I am probably stretching to even attempt to discuss tonight’s topic. I am certainly not a physicist but a friend of mine always sends me articles when they tie current events to God or references in the Bible. Normally,…

Well, Easter was one week ago today. It seems like it was longer ago than that, but here we are seven days after Jesus was resurrected from the dead. Undoubtedly, the disciples were afraid. Their leader was gone and there…

Matthew records the teaching of the disciples in the Sermon on the Mount in chapters 5-7 of his Gospel. I’m teaching this interesting section of the Scripture this spring and actually presented an abbreviated synopsis earlier this evening at a…

Theologians debate all sorts of things and some of my best seminary memories were those incidental conversations that came up during class. I used to say that real learning happened “in the cracks.” Those are the non scripted conversations that…

One of the words that we run across quite often in the Bible is the word, “dwelling.” When we think of a “dwelling”, we think of a home, or a place to stay, sometimes temporary, but sometimes not - or…

Janet and I continue to be amazed by the outpouring of love and encouragement that we have experienced during Janet’s recovery from lumbar spine surgery. Surgery was just over a week ago and, to be sure, progress has been slow.…

Today, we started the spring semester of the Soul Sisters, the women’s Bible study that I help with each spring and each fall. While we usually study a book of the Bible, we chose a different path this spring. For…

The Christmas rush is over - and we are now comfortably in the new year. Janet and I made the decision to store our decorations right after Christmas this year as Janet is facing some surgery later this month. We…

If you finished the title with “of Christmas”, then you are correct. As we finish celebrating another Christmas Day, commemorating the birth of our Savior, we turn our focus to the next twelve days - culminating in the celebration of…